Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
9.00
Bumble Bee Nesting Material
Natural nesting material for your bumble bee nesting box.
Includes
- This pack contains (natural) nesting material that will be enough to replenish two bumble bee nesting boxes.
When using your bumblebee nesting box for the second or subsequent years it is a good idea to provide new and fresh nesting material helping to make the inside of the box as bumble bee friendly as you can.
Observations
This natural nesting material comes from a naturally sustainable source and breaks down safely when composted at the end of its life.
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Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
0.00
This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through Oderings Garden Centres - click here to visit their online store.
Product includes
Your cardboard bumble bee hive includes:
- Approximately 80 worker bees and one healthy queen.
- Instructions for setting up and raising your bumble bees.
Healthy bumble bees are perfect for garden, fruit, vegetable and flower pollination.
Mild-mannered large earth bumblebee bombus terrestris are raised for gardeners and commercial growers.
Siting
Since the cardboard hive that the colony is delivered in is not weatherproof, we suggest you purchase a Bumble-A-Bode, perfectly sized to accommodate the specially designed cardboard hive. “And looks just great in your garden!” It is built to last and can be used over and over again!
Available
All year round for outdoor pollination and greenhouse use. Our suppliers can produce and provide hives any week of the year, which is especially important for the glasshouse grower, and means the gardener gets great quality fruits and vegetables all year round!
Super pollinator for fruit trees, tomato hot houses, vegetable gardens and flowers.
Lifespan
If conditions are right they may pollinate for 8 weeks or more! perfect for most garden pollination needs.
Efficient pollinator that gathers pollen from nearby plants, but can forage for kilometres if needed.
As the queen nears the end of her life, she produces multiple queens, 20 to 30 on average who set up their own hives elsewhere. Not only do you get great pollination, your community wins with additional pollinators as they spread each season. “So, consider adding a few extra "bumble bee nesting boxes" to provide suitable additional habitat for those newly emerging queens.”
Research
Evidence has shown that new queens that emerge from man-made hives may indeed be attracted to other similar man-made hives within which to start their own nests.
Other
For further information please visit our educational web recourse www.BeeGAP.co.nz (Gardeners Adding Pollinators)
Bumble bees work very long hours, foraging from dawn to dusk in search of nectar and pollen even on cold, rainy or foggy days which prevent other insects from flying. Despite being cold-blooded, bumble bees can produce their own body heat chemically and by muscular activity. They maintain a thoracic temperature between 35-40 degrees Celsius through enzymes in the flight muscles which break down certain sugars and release energy in the form of heat, and this enzyme is not present in the muscles of honey bees. They may also “warm up” for flight by decoupling their wings from the flight muscles, and produce warmth through an action akin to shivering. Even at temperatures below zero, bumble bees may still be flying.
Their durability is very important as far as orchardists or home gardeners are concerned, From early springtime right through to early summer the weather can change dramatically during the day – temperatures can plummet, greatly affecting honey bees, which won’t fly below 10 degrees Celsius. This is especially important for kiwifruit growers during its brief late November flowering period – in a cold, wet season, and bumble bees may well be the only insect pollinators visiting their flowers.
Shipping
Hives are 100% self-contained, with no need for any ongoing maintenance. The bumble bees are provided with sufficient sugar solution to last the life of the hive, which is pre-packaged at the base of the hive box. Hives are delivered to your door by courier service (shipped overnight).
Please note: delivery cannot be to P.O boxes.
Shipped in specially designed box to ensure healthy bees.
At the comments section of the checkout, enter the date you would like your bees sent, based on when you want to start pollination. We do our best to coordinate your target date with our bumble bee raiser.
Observation
Introduce a live bumble bee colony into your garden.
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Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
0.00
This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through Oderings Garden Centres - click here to visit their online store..
Bees need to drink water and often seek out shallow water sources such as puddles and bee / bird baths. By placing a Creative Woodcraft bee bath in your garden, you will be helping our little pollinator friends (and a host of other wildlife), with word getting out that it’s the destination to bee (literally).
Key benefits
- Ideal drinking source for bees
- Attractive destination for pollinators
- Increase pollination all year round
Placing the bee bath in your garden, and placing it near "problem plants - those that get aphids, for example", will immediately help to increase pollination and the benefits will be clear to see. It may take a week or so for the bees and other wildlife to locate the drinking source, but rest assured once they do, they will be frequent visitors at their local "drinking hole".
Includes
- Bee bath
- Hanging rope
- Easy to remove polypropylene dish (Frost and UV resistant)
Top tip
Bees are not known as good swimmers, so it will really help if you place small stones, pebbles (or something similar) in your bee bath, to ensure they have somewhere safe to perch while they drink. Refresh the water daily, adding just enough to evaporate by day's end and you'll have pollinator friends for life.
Observations
If the bees are coming to drink in your yard, they’ll be sure to return the favour by pollinating your garden.
Dimensions: 30cm x 30cm x 5cm
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Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
0.00
This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through the Oderings Garden Centres - click here to visit their online store.
This Bumble bee abode has been specifically designed to accommodate a live colony of bumble bees supplied in a cardboard hive (purchase separately).
See your garden explode with blossom as a result!
- Introduce and encourage bumble bee pollination on your property
- Increase yields and crop sizes
- Provide a nesting habitat for bumble bees
- Increase pollination of fruit trees, flower gardens and vegetable areas
- A Bumble bee abode can be sited at any time of the year.
No assembly required. Well insulated design protects nesting bees from overheating. Vents around base provide air flow.
Product includes
- Bumble bee abode
Siting
Surrounding terrain should be well-drained, protected from excessive winds, shade or heat, and a site against a tree or building aids the bee’s orientation. Least successful locations are facing south or placed underneath pine trees.
Raise the bumble bee abode of the ground about 1” using stones or a couple of small pieces of treated timber.
Sow Creative Woodcraft’s wildflower seed mix nearby to help encourage birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.
Further information
For further information please visit our educational web recourse www.beegap.co.nz (Gardeners Adding Pollinators).
Bumble bees work very long hours, foraging from dawn to dusk in search of nectar and pollen even on cold, rainy or foggy days which prevent other insects from flying. Despite being cold-blooded, bumble bees can produce their own body heat chemically and by muscular activity. They maintain a thoracic temperature between 35-40 degrees Celsius through enzymes in the flight muscles which break down certain sugars and release energy in the form of heat, and this enzyme is not present in the muscles of honey bees. They may also “warm up” for flight by decoupling their wings from the flight muscles, and produce warmth through an action akin to shivering. Even at temperatures below zero, bumble bees may still be flying.
Their durability is very important as far as orchardists or home gardeners are concerned, “From early springtime right through to early summer the weather can change dramatically during the day – temperatures can plummet, greatly affecting honey bees, which won’t fly below 10 degrees Celsius. This is especially important for kiwifruit growers during its brief late November flowering period – in a cold, wet season, and bumble bees may well be the only insect pollinators visiting their flowers.”
Maintenance
This bumble bee abode is made from quality timber sourced from local, sustainable managed forest plantations. Non-toxic water based stains and sealants are used wherever possible in the manufacturing of our products. The nesting box can be re-stained periodically to maintain its appearance.
Observation
Introduce a live bumble bee colony into your garden.
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Vendor: Creative Woodcraft
Type: Bees
Price:
0.00
This wonderful Creative Woodcraft product is now proudly sold through Oderings Garden Centres - click here to visit their online store.
See your garden explode with blossom as a result!
- Encourage bumble bee pollination on your property
- Increase yields and crop sizes
- Provide a nesting habitat for bumble bees
- Increase pollination of fruit trees, flower gardens and vegetable areas
- A bumble bee nesting box can be sited at any time of the year.
Product includes
- Bumble bee nesting box
- Bumble bee nesting material
- Bee attractor pack – wildflower seed mix
Siting
Successful occupation of the nesting box depends upon correct siting: surrounding terrain should be well-drained, protected from excessive winds, shade or heat, and a site against a tree or building aids the bee’s orientation. Least successful locations are facing south or placed underneath pine trees.
Raise bumble bee nesting box of the ground about 1” using stones or a couple of small pieces of treated timber.
Sow Creative Woodcraft’s Wildflower seed mix nearby to help encourage birds, bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects.
Further information
For further information please visit our educational web recourse BeeGAP.co.nz (Gardeners Adding Pollinators)
Bumble bees work very long hours, foraging from dawn to dusk in search of nectar and pollen even on cold, rainy or foggy days which prevent other insects from flying. Despite being cold-blooded, bumble bees can produce their own body heat chemically and by muscular activity. They maintain a thoracic temperature between 35-40 degrees Celsius through enzymes in the flight muscles which break down certain sugars and release energy in the form of heat, and this enzyme is not present in the muscles of honey bees. They may also “warm up” for flight by decoupling their wings from the flight muscles, and produce warmth through an action akin to shivering. Even at temperatures below zero, bumble bees may still be flying.
Their durability is very important as far as orchardists or home gardeners are concerned, “From early springtime right through to early summer the weather can change dramatically during the day – temperatures can plummet, greatly affecting honey bees, which won’t fly below 10 degrees Celsius. This is especially important for kiwifruit growers during its brief late November flowering period – in a cold, wet season, and bumble bees may well be the only insect pollinators visiting their flowers.”
Maintenance
This Bumble bee nesting box is made from quality timber sourced from locally, sustainably managed forest plantations. Nontoxic water based stains and sealants are used wherever possible in the manufacturing of our products. The nesting box can be re-stained periodically to maintain its appearance.
Observation
Encourage bumble bee queens to establish a healthy colony.
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